Municipal politics often resembles a Reality TV wheel-squeaking contest. He worked to get on the show, played, and won a modest prize.

Was it worth all his time & hassle? I'll guess "no", but I don't follow Spanish politics.

Meanwhile, a wide variety of Spanish lotteries offer you chances to win vastly larger prizes, at taxpayer expense, with a quick & easy ticket purchase. Have you bought one?

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What do you mean at taxpayer expense? Spanish's National Lottery is one of the few State-run enterprises that returns real money to the taxpayer.

Net, yes. But inside that Lottery - ticket sales are income, and collected winnings are expenses. And I'd bet that unclaimed winnings end back up in the government's coffers - therefor, you claiming your winnings means that you benefit at taxpayer expense.

I hate seeing my taxes wasted on roads maintenance, airports and medical facilities for the ones that didn’t bother having a physical activity or eating healthy during they life (the list can go very long). Don’t take me wrong, I’m happy to have roads and hospitals but not at that scale. I pay vastly more for those than what I benefit from.

On the other hand I’m very happy to freely use the new cycling roads and benefit from a somewhat stable and secure society where the chances are low to encounter a furious outcast that want to rob me.

You've misunderstood the point. Roads, airports, medical facilities are shared infrastructure. Private living arrangements are not.

Fair point. I was about to respond:

[One could see some similitudes in the occupation of a rented place for some years and the occupation of ~5m2 on the road for some seconds. Also public hospitals are often congested so they are shared but you have to wait... I admit you wait shorter than for an appartement]

However as I considered that and what you wrote, I'm not sure about it. I post it for posterity.